Thousands of foreigners are caught in the wake of the Libyan revolution
Exodus
The prospect of fighting has led foreign workers in the country to evacuate. Here workers walk with their belongings along the coastline in Benghazi, Feb. 26, hoping to leave the country.Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for TIME
Left Behind
By the end of the second week of revolutionary turmoil, tens of thousands of expatriates had fled the country — spilling over the Egyptian and Tunisian borders, out of Tripoli on chartered evacuation flights, and into the port at Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, which is now under rebel control.Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for TIME
On the Line
A line forms of foreigners who hope to be evacuated. Thousands of workers from South Asia and West Africa are now stranded here, many without passports or any cash and with nowhere else to go. Crowding the floors of buildings inside the port are Indians, Pakistanis, Vietnamese, Thais and Filipinos.Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for TIME
Possessions
A foreign worker walks along the coastline in Benghazi.Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for TIME
Port in a Storm
Foreign workers wait in queues in Benghazi on Saturday, Feb. 26, hoping to evacuate the country.Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for TIME
